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Making History in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe

Politics, Intellectuals and the Media

Blessing-Miles Tendi (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

2010
Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-3-03911-989-9 (ISBN)

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The crisis that has engulfed Zimbabwe since 2000 is not simply a struggle against dictatorship. It is also a struggle over ideas and deep-seated historical issues, still unresolved from the independence process, that both Robert Mugabe's ZANU PF regime and Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC are vying first to define and then to address. This book traces the role of politicians and public intellectuals in media, civil society and the academy in producing and disseminating a politically usable historical narrative concerning ideas about patriotism, race, land, human rights and sovereignty. It raises pressing questions about the role of contemporary African intellectuals in the making of democratic societies. In so doing the book adds a new and rich dimension to the study of African politics, which is often diluted by the neglect of ideas.

Blessing-Miles Tendi (D.Phil.) is Zimbabwean. He was educated at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford. Tendi is a United Kingdom-based researcher in African politics.

Contents: African Nationalism - Robert Mugabe - Public Intellectuals - Patriotic History - The Use of History to Legitimise Power - Human Rights - Sovereignty - Race Relations - History and Politics of Land in Africa - Nationalism - Ethnicity.

«This book penetrates beneath the rhetoric of Zimbabwe's ZANU PF party and its critics to analyze the historical narrative called Patriotic History, which underlies the rhetoric and fundamental differences between Robert Mugabe and his opponents. Intellectuals and politicians on both sides are held to account in this important book.» (Princeton N. Lyman, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies, Council on Foreign Relations (Washington, DC))
«By bringing clarity, sense and cohesion to the highly contentious political rhetoric of Zimbabwean politics, the author has made an important contribution to research on contemporary Zimbabwe.» (Charles Laurie, Modern African Studies)

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.9.2010
Reihe/Serie	Nationalisms across the Globe ; 4
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	440 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
Schlagworte	African politics • Blessing • History • Intellectuals • Jaskulowski • Kamusella • krzysztof • Making • media • Miles • Morgan Tsvangirai • Mugabe • Mugabe's • Mugabe’s • Politics • Tendi • Tomasz • Zimbabwe
ISBN-10	3-03911-989-3 / 3039119893
ISBN-13	978-3-03911-989-9 / 9783039119899
Zustand	Neuware